Study of the environmental conditions and the social scoring in the elderly people in Assiut as related to the type of family

ABSTRACT

A cross sectional study including 462 individual aged 55 years and above from urban, semiurban and rural Assiut was made with the objective of assessing the social standard and environmental conditions as related to the type of family. An interview with a suitable questionnaire was administered to all randomly selected individuals and social scoring [Fahmy and El-Sherbini] was used to determine the social standard. Environmental conditions were checked using direct observation and the questionnaire sheet. These two parameters were compared for elderly people living in either nuclear or extended type of family. The study showed a prominent effect of the type of family on both the social and environmental conditions